Wilhelm boelling



m me W. BELLING. FLOORING BLOCK.

Patented Apr. 16, 1889.

UNITED STATES lVlLHELM BELLING, OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

FLOORING-BLOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part `of Letters Patent No. 401,479, dated April16, 1889.

Application filed October S,

1887. Serial No. 251,851. (No specimens.) Patented in Germany February19, 1886, No. 36,471, and in England June 2,188'7,N0. 7,966.

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILHELM BELLING, manufacturer, of Berlin, in theKingdom of Prussia and German Empire, have invented new and usefulImprovement-s on Inlaid Floors, of which the following is a specication,no patents having been obtained by me anywhere for this invention savein England under No. 7,966, dated June 2, 1887, and in Germany, No.36,471, dated February 19,1SSG.

illy invention relates to inlaid .flooring for buildings; and itconsists in cert-ain improvements in the construction of the saine, ashereinatter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View of a section of myimproved looring. Fig. 2 isa longitudinal section taken on line I Il ofFig. 1.

The improved flooring is constructed in blocks, each of which is formedof an upper plate, A, which is usually made of some kind of tine woodand an under plate, B. The two plates are connected by cross-battens C,the intermediate space, H, being filled with pitch, asphalt, or anyother material suitable for the purpose.

In constructing a block of flooring the plates A and B are made of thesize desired, the oppositie lateral edges of the plates being beveled,as seen in Fig. 2, so that one edge of each plate will lap somewhat onthe edge of an adjoining plate when the blocks are in place in a floor.The cross-battons C are then glued to the under side ot plate A, acrossthe grain of the wood, and somewhat extended beyond one edge of theplate, as shown, to enter between the plates of an adjoining block. Theunder plate, B, is then glued to the battens, and the space II, thusleft between the upper and lower plates, is then filled with pitch,asphaltum, or other suitable material. It being necessary to formrecesses in the filling of the block to receive the ends of bat tens ofthenext block, removable pieces are inserted between the plates at theend of the block before filling, such removable pieces being placedclose to the sides of the battens. The blocks of flooring thus formedare placed, in any number that may be convenient, in the press, toprevent warping of the wooden parts by the heat from the filling, andare left in the press until they become cool. After the blocks have beenformed, the removable insertion-pieces are withdrawn, leaving recessesformed in the filling between the upper and lower plates, at one end ofeach block, to receive the ends of battons C of an adjoining block,sothat the battens in both blocks will ad join laterally a shortdistance. (See Fig. 1,) in which two blocks are shown in position.

In laying the ilooring each block is laid successively, with one bevelededge fitted under a beveled edge of the next preceding block, and is'fastened by nails driven in the base, so that when the flooring iscompleted no nails in the fioor are visible, the block being se cured atone edge by the lapping edge of the preceding block, and at the oppositeedge by nails which are covered by the next succeeding block.

By this construction iiooring-blocks are produced which are elastic,cheap in manufacture, and may be readily placed and secured, or removed,as desired. By coloring or staining the upper plates and using plates ofdifferent sizes various patterns and designs may be formed in theflooring.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A flooring-blockformed of an upper plate,

Van under plate, intervening cross-battens, and

a filling of pitch or asphalt between the said plates, substantially asand for the purposes described.

2. The yflooring-blocks, each of which consists of an upper plate,'A,and under plate, B, and cross-battens C, and a filling of pitch orasphalt between the plates, said plates being formed so th at plates inone block overlap corresponding plates in an adjoining block,substantially as set fori-h and described.

3. A iiooring-block consisting of upper and under plates, A and B,battens C, extended beyond the edge of plate A, and a filling of pitchor asphalt between the plates, substantially as described.

In witness whereot1 I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twowitnesses.

YVILHELM BOELLING.

W'itnesses:

F. VON VERsnN, FRIEDRIK KONCHE.

